11 I will make the people and animals living on you increase in number. They will grow and be fruitful. You will have people living on you as you did before. I will make you better off than at the beginning. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
12 I will cause my people Israel to walk on you. Then they will take you, and you will belong to them. You will never again take their children away from them.
13 “‘This is what the Lord God says: People say about you: “You eat people and take children from your nation.”
14 You will not destroy people anymore. You will not make your nation stumble anymore, says the Lord God.
15 I will not make you listen to insults from the nations anymore. You will not suffer shame from them anymore, says the Lord God.’”
16 The Lord spoke his word to me again. He said:
17 “Human being, the nation of Israel was living in their own land. But they made it unclean by their ways and the things they did. Their ways were like a woman’s uncleanness in her time of monthly bleeding.